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Traslo Jun 14, 2019 @ 9:48pm
Refinery won't supply my assembler through conveyors?
Hey folks,

So I'm on a moon base setup, I have a nice little powered setup of an assembler and refinery and they have access to storage through a conveyor system.
My refinery can pull items from the storage through conveyors to refine stone / ores, but it will not push it even when my assembler needs what it has. The assembler uses the conveyor block in front of my assembler to pull from storage, and I can access both of them from storage so I'm not sure what i've done wrong.

Does anyone have an idea of what I might have done wrong to stop the refinery from being able to supply my assembler?
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Lander1 (Banned) Jun 14, 2019 @ 9:55pm 
There is two different things happening here, your refinery doesn't automatically push to your assembler directly.

The refinery will push its products to the nearest available storage. It will most likely push to the cargo container until that is full then the overflow will fill the assembler. This is actually something you don't want as once the assembler is full it will be jammed once it requires a different resource.

The assembler will pull items as it needs them from either storage or the refinery. It tries to reserve space within itself so it can change jobs without being jammed.
Traslo Jun 14, 2019 @ 9:56pm 
The refinery isn't actually pushing to storage either. It just leaves it in its own personal storage. It doesn't push anything, only pulls it.
Lander1 (Banned) Jun 14, 2019 @ 9:59pm 
Check ownership? Make sure all the conveyors are completely built. Try saving and reloading or logging of and back on?
Traslo Jun 14, 2019 @ 10:02pm 
Saved and reloaded, set ownership to none and then back to me, and then loaded up the refinery again and still won't push anything.

This is my setup: https://i.imgur.com/blndt3W.jpg

The refinery at the back, assembler to the left. 2 conveyor junctions between them and the only storage. It can pull from storage, but won't push to anything.
Last edited by Traslo; Jun 14, 2019 @ 10:03pm
Lander1 (Banned) Jun 14, 2019 @ 10:05pm 
Publish the world file, paste the link here, and we can take a look at it and see whats wrong.

Also, did you check that the assembler is in assemble mode and not disassemble mode?
Last edited by Lander1; Jun 14, 2019 @ 10:08pm
Traslo Jun 14, 2019 @ 10:08pm 
yeah I've been assembling things by manually dropping stuff over to it, so it's definitely not disassembling.
Traslo Jun 14, 2019 @ 10:14pm 
https://www.dropbox.com/s/x6t8oi62nw23u2l/2019-06-15%20061022.zip?dl=0

This should be the save in zip format, used the backup from 2 minutes ago.
Psojed Jun 14, 2019 @ 10:23pm 
Refinery will only push products away into storage, once its own storage is full.
Your setup is working on my world. Just make sure you have default settings on everything - Blocks are ON, Use Conveyor System ON.

Since you've been manually dropping things into assembler, also make sure your assembler's ingot inventory isn't full of iron, so it can't collect nickel and other materials required.
Psojed Jun 14, 2019 @ 10:25pm 
I downloaded the world. Your assembler has Use Conveyor System turned off...
Last edited by Psojed; Jun 14, 2019 @ 10:26pm
Traslo Jun 14, 2019 @ 10:28pm 
ah, is that a default thing?
Psojed Jun 14, 2019 @ 10:38pm 
No, default is turned ON, as I said in my previous post :) You switched it off at some point.
Traslo Jun 14, 2019 @ 10:42pm 
Honestly can't think of when I did that, but thanks!
Cloudedway Jun 15, 2019 @ 1:06am 
had the same problem on crashed red ship if there pre built then this shall occur when you rebuild or place new ones in the system. yull need to build a new system of convyers to fix this problem.
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Date Posted: Jun 14, 2019 @ 9:48pm
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